"Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnutt and Katharine Hepburn as Rose Sayer. Allnutt is changed to a Canadian in the film to explain Bogart's accent. In the film the German captain attempts to hang Rose and Charlie. They are married by the captain before the execution. The ""Königin Luise"", however, crashes into the capsized ""African Queen"" and the torpedoes detonate, destroying the ship. Charlie and Rose escape in the confusion. The African Queen (novel) The African Queen is a 1935 novel written by English author C. S. Forester. It was adapted into the 1951 film of the same name. The story"
"""Dark Passage"" (1947) and ""Key Largo"" (1948). His other significant films included ""The African Queen"", ""The Caine Mutiny"", ""Sabrina"" and ""The Barefoot Contessa"". Bogart won the Academy Award for Best Actor for ""The African Queen"", and was nominated for ""Casablanca"" and ""The Caine Mutiny"". Bogart was born on Christmas Day 1899 in New York City, the eldest child of Belmont DeForest Bogart (1867–1934) and Maud Humphrey (1868–1940). Belmont was the only child of the unhappy marriage of Adam Watkins Bogart, a Canandaigua, New York innkeeper, and his wife, Julia, a wealthy heiress. The name ""Bogart"" derives from the Dutch surname"
"Academy Award for Best Song and the Golden Globe. A film sequel, ""Rooster Cogburn"", was made in 1975, with Wayne reprising his role and Katharine Hepburn as an elderly spinster, Eula Goodnight, who teams up with him. The plot has been described as a rehash of the original ""True Grit"" with elements of the Bogart-Hepburn film ""The African Queen"". A further made-for-television sequel titled """" appeared in 1978, starring Warren Oates as Rooster Cogburn and Lisa Pelikan as Mattie Ross and featuring subsequent adventures of the valiant pair. In 2010, Joel and Ethan Coen directed another adaptation of the novel."
"The African Queen (novel) The African Queen is a 1935 novel written by English author C. S. Forester. It was adapted into the 1951 film of the same name. The story opens in August/September 1914. Rose Sayer, a 33-year-old Englishwoman, is the companion and housekeeper of her brother Samuel, an Anglican missionary in German-colonized Tanganyika (present-day Tanzania). World War I has recently begun, and the German military commander of the area has conscripted all the natives; the village is deserted, and only Rose and her dying brother remain. Samuel dies during the night and Rose is alone. That day, another"
"The Queen (South African TV series) The Queen is a South African telenovela that premiered on Mzansi Magic on August 1, 2016 – present,The telenovela is produced by Ferguson Films and created by one of South Africa’s most respected Actresses Connie Ferguson and her husband Shona Ferguson. The telenovela stars Connie as Harriet Khoza (Connie Ferguson) who has lived her whole life as a spoiled trophy wife, but tragedy strikes her family and she is forced to take over a family empire and bring unity to a family at war with itself, whilst hiding a deadly secret that can tear"
"Wind"", was the first African-American to win an Academy Award. Her Oscar for her role in ""Gone With the Wind"" was criticized by some since she won it playing the role of a slave. Though she generally avoided politics, she became Chairwoman of the Hollywood Victory Committee's Negro Division. One of the most successful projects of the Hollywood Victory Committee was the organization of the Hollywood Victory Caravan in 1942. During a three-week cross country rail tour, performers such as Laurel and Hardy, Bing Crosby, Groucho Marx, Gary Grant, Desi Arnaz and Bob Hope participated in performances and rallies that"
"and Theodore Bikel. ""The African Queen"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1994, with the Library of Congress deeming it ""culturally, historically or aesthetically significant"". The film holds a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 41 reviews. Samuel Sayer (Robert Morley) and his sister Rose (Katharine Hepburn) are British Methodist missionaries in the village of Kungdu in German East Africa at the beginning of World War I in September 1914. Their mail and supplies are delivered by a small steam launch named the ""African Queen"", helmed by the rough-and-ready Canadian boat captain Charlie"
"age of 70 at the time of her win. The other was Edmund Gwenn. This was the only time in the history of the Academy Awards that all Best Supporting Actress nominees were born outside the United States. This was the first time a Black actor won Best Actor, and the first time a winning film (""An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"") had been aired on network television before the ceremony. Sammy Davis Jr. announced the winner in the category scoring of music, adaptation or treatment but was given the envelope with the name of a winner in a different"
"20th Academy Awards No film received more than three awards at the 20th Academy Awards. This would not recur until the 78th Academy Awards. Rosalind Russell was highly favored to win Best Actress her performance in ""Mourning Becomes Electra"", but Loretta Young won instead for ""The Farmer's Daughter"". James Baskett received an Academy Honorary Award for his portrayal of Uncle Remus in ""Song of the South"", which made him the first African-American man and the first Walt Disney star to win an Academy Award for acting. At age 71, Edmund Gwenn was the oldest Oscar-winner to that time. The previous"
"5th Africa Movie Academy Awards The 5th Africa Movie Academy Awards ceremony was held on April 4, 2009 at the Gloryland Cultural Center in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria, to honor the best African films of 2008. It was broadcast live on Nigerian national television. Africa Movie Academy Award winner Kate Henshaw-Nuttal and Nigerian stand-up comedian Julius Agwu hosted the ceremony. Numerous celebrities graced the event, including Timipre Sylva (the Governor of Bayelsa State) and Nollywood actresses and actors. Special guests were Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker and Hollywood actor Danny Glover. The nominees were announced on March 3, 2009 during"
"final film for Bogart and John Huston. Co-written by Truman Capote, the eccentrically filmed tale follows an amoral group of rogues chasing an unattainable treasure. Bogart sold his interest in Santana to Columbia for over $1 million in 1955. Working outside of his own Santana Productions, Bogart starred with Katharine Hepburn in the John Huston directed ""The African Queen"" in 1951. The C.S. Forester novel on which it was based was overlooked and left undeveloped for fifteen years until producer Sam Spiegel and Huston bought the rights. Spiegel sent Katharine Hepburn the book and she suggested Bogart for the male"
"to win an Academy Award, surpassing the 431-minute long ""War and Peace,"" which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1969. Following the five-part documentary's win, new Academy rules barred any ""multi-part or limited series"" from being eligible for documentary categories. With Casey Affleck winning the Oscar for Best Actor, him and his older brother, Ben Affleck, became the 16th pair of siblings to win Academy Awards. Mahershala Ali became the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar. Viola Davis became the first black person to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting with her Oscar, Emmy, and"
"and exit music, ""Gone with the Wind"" lasts for 234 minutes (although some sources put its full length at 238 minutes) while ""Lawrence of Arabia"" comes in slightly shorter at 232 minutes with its additional components. Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American to win an Academy Award—beating out her co-star Olivia de Havilland who was also nominated in the same category—but was racially segregated from her co-stars at the awards ceremony at the Coconut Grove; she and her escort were made to sit at a separate table at the back of the room. Meanwhile, screenwriter Sidney Howard became the first"
"categories. Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh are the only married couple to win, for """". Geoffrey S. Fletcher (for ""Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire""), John Ridley (for ""12 Years a Slave""), and Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney (both for ""Moonlight"") are the only African-Americans to win in this category; Fletcher is also the first African-American to win in any writing category. Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Paddy Chayefsky, Francis Ford Coppola, Horton Foote, William Goldman, Robert Benton, Bo Goldman, and the Coen brothers have won Oscars for both original and adapted screenplays. James Ivory is the oldest"
"Davis, and Best Motion Picture of the Year. The movie walked away with one win for Best Supporting Actress Octavia Spencer, leaving Viola Davis to lose to Meryl Streep, a 20-time nominee and three-time winner. Octavia Spencer was the only African American to win an award that night, which for the Academy Awards is not a rare occasion. Writing years ago, the ""NY Times"" said: Due to the racial discrimination in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Hollywood tended to avoid using African-American actors/actress. In the 19th century, Blackface became a popular form of entertainment. Blackface let Hollywood use different"
"to win the award for the same film. Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise first accomplished this feat for co-directing 1961's ""West Side Story"". This was also the second time in Oscar history (the first being 1964's 37th Academy Awards) that none of the four acting winners was American. Daniel Day-Lewis became the eighth person to win Best Actor twice. Best Actress winner Marion Cotillard was the fifth person to win for a non-English speaking performance and the second person to do so in the aforementioned category, after Sophia Loren who won for 1961's ""Two Women"". Cate Blanchett became the eleventh"
"She played Rose Sayer, a prim spinster missionary living in German East Africa at the outbreak of World War I. Co-starring Humphrey Bogart, ""The African Queen"" was shot mostly on location in the Belgian Congo, an opportunity Hepburn embraced. It proved a difficult experience, however, and Hepburn became ill with dysentery during filming. Later in life, she released a memoir about the experience. The movie was released at the end of 1951 to popular support and critical acclaim, and gave Hepburn her fifth Best Actress nomination at the Academy Awards. The first successful film she had made without Tracy since"
"occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950, but whose death has marked a completed body of work. The top stars of their respective gender are Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. They starred together in the classic adventure 1951 film ""The African Queen"", for which Bogart won his only Academy Award. AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars is a list of the top 25 male and 25 female greatest screen legends of American film history. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 15,"
"the first African-American to win a Best Actor award and the second African-American to win any Oscar (the first was Hattie McDaniel who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for ""Gone with the Wind""). Poitier also won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. The film was also nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Lilia Skala), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. The film was also nominated in 1965 for the United Nations Award at the BAFTA Awards. Also, the film"
"African Queen"" (1951), King Vidor's ""War and Peace"" (1956), and """" (1985). However, he is best known for his extraordinary Technicolor photography on three films directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in the 1940s — ""A Matter of Life and Death"" (1946), ""Black Narcissus"" (1947, for which Cardiff won an Oscar), and ""The Red Shoes"" (1948). Shooting took place in Mexico from November 1, 1983, to February 10, 1984. In the film, a camel is knocked to the ground, and after struggling to get back up, its hind legs are drawn forward with wires so that it is forced"
"(1978), and ""Lifeforce"" (1985), and worked as a set decorator for films such as John Boorman's ""Deliverance"" (1972). He died in March 1997 at the age of 78 in Bracknell, Berkshire. John Hoesli John Hoesli (8 March 1919 – 22 March 1997) was a British art and set decorator. He is best known for being the art director on films such as John Huston's ""The African Queen"", Stanley Kubrick's """" (1968), Anthony Asquith's ""Orders to Kill"" (1958) with Alan Withy, and Jeannot Szwarc's """" (1985) with Don Dossett. It was Hoesli who found the old steamboat used in ""The African"
"Biodun Jeyifo from Nigeria, and John Mugane from Kenya; and at Princeton, Adel Mahmoud from Egypt, Wole Soboyejo from Nigeria, Simon Gikandi from Kenya, V. Kofi Agawu from Ghana, and Kwame Anthony Appiah from Ghana. In sports, Hakeem Olajuwon, Dikembe Mutombo, Darlington Nagbe, and Freddy Adu are prominent. In the arts, Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron and Grammy Award-winning musician Dave Matthews, both white South Africans; and two-time Academy Award-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou and Grammy-winning musician Angelique Kidjo, both from Benin; and recently Lupita Nyong'o and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, are most notable. The following is a list of notable African"
"Best Actor (for ""Lilies of the Field"" in 1963). (James Baskett was the first African-American male to receive an Oscar, an Honorary Academy Award for his performance as Uncle Remus in the Walt Disney production of ""Song of the South"" in 1948, while Hattie McDaniel predated them both, winning as Best Supporting Actress for her role in 1939's ""Gone with the Wind"", making her the first person of African descent to be nominated for and receive an Oscar). His satisfaction at this honor was undermined by his concerns that this award was more of the industry congratulating itself for having"
"the winner in December 2013. Winner: Fredrik Logevall, """" Shortlist: Jury: Diane Johnson, Adam Gopnik and Julian Barnes The shortlist was announced in July, and the winner in November 2014. Winner: Robert Harris, ""An Officer and a Spy"" Shortlist: Jury: Alice Kaplan, Sebastian Faulks, and Pierre Assouline The shortlist was announced in July 2015, and the winner was announced 6 November. Winner: Laura Auricchio, ""The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered"" Shortlist: Jury: Laura Furman, Lily Tuck, Fredrik Logevall Winner: Ethan B. Katz, ""The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France"" Shortlist: Jury: Laura Auricchio, Robert Harris, Robert O."
"fields of film, television, theater and music. ★ Bold indicates the winner in each category. ★ Anthony Michael Hall - ""Sixteen Candles"" (Universal) ★ Molly Ringwald - ""Sixteen Candles"" (Universal) ★ Ke Huy Quan - ""Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"" (Paramount) ★ Elisabeth Shue - ""The Karate Kid"" (Columbia) ★ - ""The Day After"" (ABC) ★ Missy Francis - ""Something About Amelia"" (ABC) ★ David Mendenhall - ""General Hospital"" (ABC) ★ Shalane McCall - ""Dallas"" (CBS) ★ - ""Call to Glory"" (ABC) ★ Melora Hardin - """" (ABC) ★ Billy Jacoby - """" (ABC) ★ Justine Bateman -"
"movie. She was the last surviving African-American adult who had a speaking part in the movie. When told of the award, she said, ""I think it is terrific. I'm very pleased and very surprised"". The film won three Academy Awards out of the eight for which it was nominated. Other nominations were for Its main competition was ""Lawrence of Arabia"", which won the Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Score. Peter O'Toole had been nominated for Best Actor for his performance as T. E. Lawrence, but Peck won for ""Mockingbird"". ""The Longest Day"" claimed the award for"
"from 18 countries. Brazil stood out with the largest number of nominations - a total of nine - in several categories. Rede Globo, meanwhile, scored the most nominations, with six. The winners were announced on November 20, 2017 at a Black-Tie Gala held at the New York Hilton Midtown Hotel, hosted by comedian Maz Jobrani. Kenneth Branagh won the International Emmy for Best Actor for her performance on the British television series ""Wallander"", while Anna Friel won the Best Actress Award for her role in ""Marcella"". Branagh and Friel were among 11 winning performers and programs spanning eight countries: Belgium,"
"to win this award and the third overall to receive an Academy Award after Simone Signoret in 1960 and Juliette Binoche in 1997. She is the first Best Actress winner in a non-English language performance since Sophia Loren's win in 1961. She is also the first and (as of 2018) only winner of an Academy Award for a performance in the French language. On 24 June 2008, Cotillard was one of 105 individuals invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2009, Cotillard starred alongside Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in the role of Billie Frechette"
"having previously been a co-host of the 49th ceremony held in 1977. Meanwhile, this was Alda and Williams's first Oscars hosting stint. Eight days earlier, in a ceremony held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on March 16, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Macdonald Carey. ""Out of Africa"" won seven awards including Best Picture. Other winners included ""Cocoon"" and ""Witness"" with two awards, and ""Kiss of the Spider Woman"", ""The Trip to Bountiful"", ""Prizzi's Honor"", ""The Official Story"", ""Broken Rainbow"", """", ""Molly's Pilgrim"", ""Anna & Bella"", ""White Nights"", ""Back to the Future"", ""Mask"""
"nominations after a win, and is tied with Viola Davis as the most nominated black actress to date. She has also won three Screen Actors Guild Awards, three National Board of Review Awards, two Satellite Awards, two Critics' Choice Movie Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a BAFTA Award. Octavia Spencer Octavia Lenora Spencer (born May 25, 1972) is an American actress, author, and film producer. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award. She is one of two black actresses to have received three Academy Award"
"Panavision, FujiFilm, and Technicolor. A request from Buckingham Palace led to a 35mm film copy of 'The Troop' being supplied to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to view at Sandringham over Christmas 1999. Following its involvement in The Troop, FujiFilm commissioned Glory Film Co. to make a series of films to demonstrate its new motion picture filmstocks. For these projects Glory employed leading cinematographers: Oscar-winners Jack Cardiff OBE, BSC, ASC, (""The African Queen"") and Ronnie Taylor BSC (""Gandhi"") together with Phedon Papamichael ASC (""Walk the Line""), John de Borman BSC (""The Full Monty""), Sue Gibson BSC (""Spooks""), Thierry Arbogast AFC"
"Award, and has been honored for her contributions to black cinema by the mayors of New York City and Detroit. Ayoka Chenzira Ayoka (""Ayo"") Chenzira (born 1953) is an independent African-American producer, director, animator, writer, and experimental film and transmedia storyteller. She is the first African American woman animator and one of a handful of black experimental filmmakers working since the late 1970s. She has earned international acclaim for her experimental, documentary, animation, and cross-genre productions. Her work, as well as her efforts as one of the first African American woman film educator, have led some in the press to"
"1949) completed the triple crown in 2016. She is an 8-time Emmy (3), 6-time Oscar (2), and 1-time Tony (1) nominee, for a total of 15 TC nominations. Lange has won six awards. American actress Viola Davis (born 1965) completed the triple crown in 2017. She is the first black actor to win the triple crown. She is a 3-time Oscar (1), 3-time Tony (2), and 4-time Emmy (1) nominee, for a total of 10 TC nominations. Davis has won four awards. British actress Glenda Jackson (born 1936) completed the triple crown in 2018. She is a 5-time Tony (1),"